RE: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:33:44 +0100
OK, I'm glad MSN 6.2 is up and running. Think I'll give it a go.
Anyone got a direct URL?
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Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gene
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:23 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
I have also installed the upgrade on an XP Home system and find no
problem
with MSN6.2, it runs just fine.
Thanks; Gene
On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:01 PM
Subject: My JAWS 6.1 disaster!
> Hi all! I was really excited about the new update to 6.1 so I
> downloaded and installed it right away. The install went as smooth as
> you like, everything was cool. So, I murged my settings with 6 and
> then went to test things out. I am sad to say that, for whatever
> reason, msn messenger 6.2 would not work on my system here. I could
> read the input window, in other words I could read what I was typing,
> but the history window would not read
> at all. Nothing, zip, absolutely silent!
> Well, being a former beta tester, I figured, Ok, I'll quit 6.1 and
> re-launch 6.0 and see if it works there. Well, to my shock and
amazement,
> msn 6.2 didn't work with that either! I was really frazzled now. So,
> I did a repair on 6 thinking that would work, but no dice. Still same
> condition as before, I could read what I wrote, but not what other
people
> wrote to me. Well, to make a long story very short, I ended up having
to
> scrap everything and re-installing JAWS 6, and I was even asked to
> re-activate. I have sent in a request to have my count reset, so
hopefully
> they'll do that in a few days. I'm just really upset that the whole
> upgrade
> process didn't work the way it was advertised to.
> So, if you're using MSN Messenger 6.2 with XP Home, be careful!
Install
> this newly updated version at your own risk. If it works for you,
> fantastic. If not, stick to 6 until FS can get their *** together.
> What's interesting is I have friends using XP Pro and the update works
> flawlessly, so go figure. Anyways, there's the report. I've only
rebooted
> this computer about 5 times now, and I've finally got everything
working
> again, so I'm really just thinking I'll stick with 6.0 for now.
>
> Thanks guys
> The rather frazzled Chris
>
>
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